Design 1’s main learning objective is to understand that architectural representation is about the content as much as it is about the finding of the best way to convey intent and thought processes through drawing, rendering and model making. This semester is about equipping students with ways to see and think, and to inculcate drawing and making as intrinsic thinking processes. The ambition is for the hands-on exercises to span across a spectrum of capabilities and understanding through a condensed run through methods and precedents as vehicles for learning. Individual studio tutors will teach drawing conventions and construction of technical drawings, so that a fundamental vocabulary to read and “write” architecture is at hand. Architectural representation through drawing sits at the intersection of art and science. A good drawing evidences observation in documentation, clarity in thinking, virtuosity in precision and ingenuity in execution. One does not need to be adept at art to draw well. Rather it is critical thinking and understanding, rigour, discipline and the ability to sustain enduring tasks of design investigation, development, trial and error, that form the necessary aptitude of an architectural design professional.